The peaceful protesters inDresden carried song sheetsand sang Christmas carols beforeChristmas while holdingsigns with slogans like“Against Religious Fanaticism,”“Against Hatred, Violenceand the Quran,” and “No Sharia in Europe.”The marches are in protest of exploding illegalMuslim immigration, which has resulted in streetbattles in many German cities this year betweenethnic Kurds and terrorist Militias of Salafist Muslimsarmed with broken bottles, machetes, knives,brass knuckles, firearms and even kebab skewers.In October, outside a mosque in Hamburg in October, 400 Kurds fought with 400 radical Muslims.

Alarmed at the rapid growth of the peacefulPEGIDA movement, German authorities—and theinternational media who refer to them as “pinstripe Nazis”—are trying to contain the movement.

About 4,500 counter-demonstrators were organizedto march through the city under the slogan“Dresden Nazi-free,” warning that there was nospace for racism and xenophobia in “the countrythat perpetrated the Holocaust.” Counter-demonstrationshave also taken place in other Germancities, the biggest held in Munich, where reportedly12,000 rallied under the banner “Make space—Refugees are welcome.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has cautionedGermans against falling prey to any form of “xenophobicrabble-rousing” and to watch out that they are not “instrumentalized” by the organizers.

“Everyone [at PEGIDA marches] needs to becareful that they are not taken advantage of by thepeople who organize such events,” she warned.“There’s freedom of assembly in Germany, butthere’s no place for incitement and lies about people who come to us from other countries.”

Muslim immigration is atopic of hot debate in Germanythis year following asurge in the numbers of “asylumseekers,” fueled by thewars in Syria and Iraq. Germanytakes in more asylumseekers than any other European Unioncountry and expects 200,000claims for 2014, up from 127,000 in 2013.

Speaking at the event, PEGIDA’s founder andleader Lutz Bachmann stated that “Germany is not aland of immigration” and demanded that those whowish to live in the country do so “on the basis of theChristian-Jewish merits of our constitution and our German culture with its Christian-Jewish roots.”

Ironically, Germany, a predominantly Christiancountry of 80 million, has 4.5 million Muslims andonly 120,000 Jews. There are 245,000 Buddhists and120,000 Hindus. Does a paltry 0.15% Jewish population make Germany a Christian-Jewish culture?

Pete Papaherakles is a writer and political cartoonist for AFP and is also AFP’s outreach director. Pete is interested in getting AFP writers and editors on the podium at patriotic events. Call him at 202-544-5977 if you know of an event youthink AFP should attend.

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On Monday January 12, 2015, the protest “walkers” numbered 30,000 in Dresden. Meanwhile they had been reviled as rats by politicians. Since the Paris onslaught, law enforcement are discussed and it seems those plans had been laid down earlier. It is worth thinking about the media-presence of Pegida even if it heads a negative course. It divides.

On the contrary, the counter-demonstrators are payed a 10 – 25 €/hour reward when joining the anti-rallies. Eventually this money is contributed by the “Staatskanzlei” of Saxe and distributed by dependent government projects. Most of all, counter-demonstrators are recruited from authority employees, students, actors, singers and prominent people. The average Pegida-marcher is a man tired of politics, a worker, an architect, a father, a grandmother and even a child. They march in silence without hatred in a on-offending habit. On the other hand, they indulge being spit on, pelted with stones, irregularly blocked by their radical opponents, underneath the eyes of the lawmen.

The fear occurs behind Pegida: What will happen, if all the unspoken questions behind Pegidas’ focus come to the table? Sovereignty by a treaty of peace, for instance.

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